Removing Front Control Arm Bushes
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Need a bit of help here please. Did a search and looked on clarks but did not find a diffinative answer.
What is the best way to remove the front of A-arm bushes to fit the weltmeisers?
I know you have to remove the rubber and the outer steel sleeve, but how? There is no way to press them out as there is a lip that prevents this. Also tried to heat the arm but the sleeve seems to expand at a higher rate preventing removal.
Any help appreciated.
What is the best way to remove the front of A-arm bushes to fit the weltmeisers?
I know you have to remove the rubber and the outer steel sleeve, but how? There is no way to press them out as there is a lip that prevents this. Also tried to heat the arm but the sleeve seems to expand at a higher rate preventing removal.
Any help appreciated.
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Need a bit of help here please. Did a search and looked on clarks but did not find a diffinative answer.
What is the best way to remove the front of A-arm bushes to fit the weltmeisers?
I know you have to remove the rubber and the outer steel sleeve, but how? There is no way to press them out as there is a lip that prevents this. Also tried to heat the arm but the sleeve seems to expand at a higher rate preventing removal.
Any help appreciated.
What is the best way to remove the front of A-arm bushes to fit the weltmeisers?
I know you have to remove the rubber and the outer steel sleeve, but how? There is no way to press them out as there is a lip that prevents this. Also tried to heat the arm but the sleeve seems to expand at a higher rate preventing removal.
Any help appreciated.
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I am going to be doing this tonight to fit the Welt's in my aluminum arms. Ive done it on two other arms and very carefully used a sawz-all to cut the sleeve in half. I then literally crushed the sleeve in a vice a few different ways and worked it out with channel-locks. A hacksaw would be better, but i pride myself on surgical precision with sawz-all's (if thats even possible....
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Shall try the hacksaw method tonight, the rubber is all gone so I have a clear run at the sleeves. Will post pics when I'm done. thanx
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It was a bad day when I did that job. At least you had the foresight to ask here before getting out a torch...
Best of luck, my advice is simply to be persistent. Press the new ones on carefully, too.
Best of luck, my advice is simply to be persistent. Press the new ones on carefully, too.
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Did yours look as bad as mine?? Holy crap!
They have 15k miles on them and are a little over a year old. Maybe 8 autocrosses also...
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I didnt even have to cut out the sleeves! They came right out with channel-locks
They have 15k miles on them and are a little over a year old. Maybe 8 autocrosses also...
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/TechnoDuck/My%201987%20Porsche%20944/IMG_5358.jpg)
I didnt even have to cut out the sleeves! They came right out with channel-locks
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I had to do this on my steel A-arm caster bushings
First i tried pulling it off with my hands. Yeah right!! Then tried to knock it off with a metal chisel. No success - so I got a punch and mounted it all up in a vice and tried to drift it off. That didnt work so I lit mine on fire with a gas welder and watched the rubber burn off. That vented some of the stress away while I listened to ACDC and Angus beltin it out.
I also was spraying oil on it constantly hoping that it would seep into the insides of the bushing under the heat. Finally I ended up doing the same thing as Tifo- very carefully used a hacksaw.
First i tried pulling it off with my hands. Yeah right!! Then tried to knock it off with a metal chisel. No success - so I got a punch and mounted it all up in a vice and tried to drift it off. That didnt work so I lit mine on fire with a gas welder and watched the rubber burn off. That vented some of the stress away while I listened to ACDC and Angus beltin it out.
I also was spraying oil on it constantly hoping that it would seep into the insides of the bushing under the heat. Finally I ended up doing the same thing as Tifo- very carefully used a hacksaw.
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